Hector's Folly (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
Some men are defined by their ambitions; Hector is defined by the spectacular wreckage of his. Hector's Folly by Wilbur Sanders is a work of fiction that chronicles the misadventures of its titular protagonist, a man whose grand designs and stubborn conviction lead him down a path of comic yet poignant self-destruction. Set against a richly rendered backdrop of ordinary life, the novel presents Hector as an everyman antihero — brimming with plans that the world around him consistently refuses to accommodate — and charts the collision between his outsized sense of purpose and the humbling reality of his circumstances. Sanders crafts a narrative that balances dry wit with genuine human warmth, illustrating how the gap between aspiration and achievement can be both a source of comedy and a mirror for the deeper anxieties of modern life. The novel belongs to a tradition of character-driven British fiction that finds profundity in the mundane, drawing on irony and understatement to probe questions of pride, self-deception, and the courage it takes to keep dreaming in the face of repeated failure. Ultimately, Hector's Folly leaves the reader wondering: is Hector a fool, or simply the only honest man in the room?
Author: Wilbur Sanders
Format: Hardback
Published: 1995, Eletheria Press
Genre: Fiction
Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
Some men are defined by their ambitions; Hector is defined by the spectacular wreckage of his. Hector's Folly by Wilbur Sanders is a work of fiction that chronicles the misadventures of its titular protagonist, a man whose grand designs and stubborn conviction lead him down a path of comic yet poignant self-destruction. Set against a richly rendered backdrop of ordinary life, the novel presents Hector as an everyman antihero — brimming with plans that the world around him consistently refuses to accommodate — and charts the collision between his outsized sense of purpose and the humbling reality of his circumstances. Sanders crafts a narrative that balances dry wit with genuine human warmth, illustrating how the gap between aspiration and achievement can be both a source of comedy and a mirror for the deeper anxieties of modern life. The novel belongs to a tradition of character-driven British fiction that finds profundity in the mundane, drawing on irony and understatement to probe questions of pride, self-deception, and the courage it takes to keep dreaming in the face of repeated failure. Ultimately, Hector's Folly leaves the reader wondering: is Hector a fool, or simply the only honest man in the room?